Aerial View

Aerial View is your route to a broader market perspective. With our unique vantage point, drawn from the diverse participants that intersect with our custody platform, we can arm you with the latest insights in trading, collateral, funding and liquidity, to help you get the edge. Our mission is to be a trusted source for ideas and an industry resource on some of the timeliest topics of the day.

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PROFILE | MARCH 2023

Green Shoots for Africa

The so-called Liquidity and Sustainability Facility is aimed at transforming the financial landscape in Africa and other developing markets by installing a mature repo market for government bonds.

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FEATURE | OCTOBER 2022

Keeping Supply Chains Moving

Global supply chains have faced significant challenges in recent years. In these uncertain times, supply chain finance and digital networks are providing clients with much-needed support.

PROFILE | MARCH 2022

Is Finance Finally Listening to Women?

The escalation of diversity, equity and inclusion strategies suggests finance is finally giving women what they deserve.

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FEATURE | JANUARY 2022

Smart Messaging and the Payments Revolution

Banks migrating to a new financial messaging standard known as “ISO 20022” are enabling faster and more efficient payment instructions and a new era in global commerce.

FEATURE | NOVEMBER 2021

Future-Proofing the U.S. Treasury Market

The pandemic was just the latest episode exposing fault lines in the $22 trillion U.S. Treasury market. To foster greater resiliency and have a material impact in the next stress event, the market’s infrastructure—and the Fed’s role in it—may need to change.

Feature

OCTOBER 2022

Keeping Supply Chains Moving

Global supply chains have faced significant challenges in recent years. In these uncertain times, supply chain finance and digital networks are providing clients with much-needed support.

JANUARY 2022

Smart Messaging and the Payments Revolution

Banks migrating to a new financial messaging standard known as “ISO 20022” are enabling faster and more efficient payment instructions and a new era in global commerce.

NOVEMBER 2021

Future-Proofing the U.S. Treasury Market

SEPTEMBER 2021

The Changing Face of Dutch Pensions

A government-led overhaul of Dutch pensions is forcing those plans to provide unprecedented choice to plan members.

JULY 2021

Active ETFs: The Next Act

Net flows into active ETFs are on pace for a new record, as investors look to counter market uncertainty and avoid the pitfalls of plain-vanilla index strategies.

JUNE 2021

Help for Europe: A Bold New Funding Plan

The EU’s unprecedented foray into the capital markets promises a green, digital transformation for the region.

MAY 2021

Digging Into ESG Data

Investors are using a variety of approaches to demonstrate their seriousness about ESG, from artificial intelligence and partnerships with academia to boutique ratings and in-house rankings.

APRIL 2021

What Comes Next for "Meme" Stocks

Retail participation in equity markets is soaring, fueled by commission-free brokers and the growing accessibility of trading technology.

MARCH 2021

China Rising: The Door Widens to Investors

China’s accelerated deregulation is raising fresh opportunities in collateral, securities finance, FX and much more.

JANUARY 2020

In Defense of Securities Lending

Recent industry efforts to improve transparency in stock lending and bolster shareholder engagement.

NOVEMBER 2019

Brexit: The End of the Beginning

Discover how the seeds of Brexit were sown decades ago and why instability within Parliament may be expected for years to come.

OCTOBER 2019

Deciphering a Repo Dislocation

Funding pressures in the repo market exposed new cracks in US money markets.

JUNE 2021

ETFs to Join the Collateral Party

Explore how ETFs could become the next big thing in collateral circles.

SEPTEMBER 2019

Going Beyond the Call

What do the new automation and aggregation tools mean for buyside credit traders? Find out in our latest market-structure article on Aerial View.

SEPTEMBER 2019

The Meteoric Rise of Treasuries

Discover how US government debt has risen to the apex of global collateral and securities finance over the past decade.

JUNE 2019

Assault on Central Banks

With increasing criticism of today’s policy decisions, is the era of the independent central banking over?

Digital

NOVEMBER 2020

China and the Dawn of Digital Currency

The recent test of a digital renminbi heralds the dawn of a new era, both for Chinese monetary policy and how the world will trade with the rising superpower in the years ahead.

OCTOBER 2020

How to Succeed in Fixing Settlement Fails

Failures-to-deliver U.S. Treasury securities soared during the COVID-19 market volatility in March. However, innovative new technology using machine learning and data analytics is showing hugely encouraging results in predicting settlement fails before they happen.

FEBRUARY 2020

Tokens of Appreciation?

How digitizing assets using blockchain can speed up settlement and enhance liquidity.

JUNE 2019

Crypto’s Next Act

Crypto-currencies like Bitcoin are hailed by some as the future of monetary convenience when prices are soaring. Can digital currencies become a threat to fiat currency and a core asset class in the portfolios of institutional investors?

Profile

MARCH 2023

Green Shoots for Africa

The so-called Liquidity and Sustainability Facility is aimed at transforming the financial landscape in Africa and other developing markets by installing a mature repo market for government bonds.

MARCH 2021

Is Finance Finally Listening to Women?

The escalation of diversity, equity and inclusion strategies suggests finance is finally giving women what they deserve.

NOVEMBER 2021

A Panoramic View for Treasurers

COVID-19 was a wake-up call for treasurers, who realized their workstations needed more real-time data feeds, analytics and a single panoramic view of all their liquidity.

OCTOBER 2019

Microsoft’s Digital Transformation

The tech giant talks liquidity management, investing and digitizing workflows in the cloud.

JUNE 2019

Navigating Uncharted Waters

Hedge-fund Brevan Howard talks about its approach to non-cleared margin rule compliance.

Trend

OCTOBER 2020

Why Outsourcing is Turning Trading Inside Out

When failures-to-deliver in U.S. Treasury and agency securities spiked during the March COVID-19 market volatility, it threw a spotlight back on the need for settlement efficiency.

MAY 2020

The Inconvenient Truth About ESG

ESG funds appear to be weathering the COVID-19 storm but are still grappling with data challenges.

MAY 2020

Where the Smart Money is Finding Safety

As losses mounted, where investors found refuge.

SEPTEMBER 2019

A Pop in Korean Securities Finance?

Learn how Korea is quietly becoming a securities finance market worth watching and why Korean government bonds could be a new source of global collateral.

JUNE 2019

Regulation

JULY 2020

Bracing for Impact: What's Complicating the Push to End Libor

The countdown to LIBOR cessation is accelerating, with a compressed timeline and COVID-related challenges.

JUNE 2020

An Uncertain Future for Prime Funds

The March rush out of prime funds brought back familiar concerns about their perceived flaws.

OCTOBER 2019

A Calm Before the Storm?

Scores of buysiders are preparing to be hit by the next wave of non-cleared margin rules.

JULY 2019

The Challenges of Losing Libor

The replacement of LIBOR is poised to be a once-in-a-generation event. With trading and issuance tied to SOFR and other benchmarks, we explore efforts afoot to reengineer financial markets.

JULY 2019

Rules See Tweaks, Not Rollbacks

The pace of regulatory change has moderated, but meaningful amendments to the rules are anticipated.

JUNE 2019

Shaken, Not Stirred

European money market fund reforms were a blip on the industry’s radar. Not only were the flows orderly; some argue the funds could grow in size as investors diversify away from single-bank deposits.